Comments: definitely agree.......great place to take a beginner if youre in the area......i probably wouldnt drive all the way there just for this wall with a noob though. first day i got to tuscon, we drove up mt lemmon and stopped at hitchcock. after rapping from the spire, a hot chick started asking questions, said she always wanted to try climbing. she was a stewardess on vacation with her parents. took her across the road to the practice cliff, she did great, got a phone#, very cool chick.... u... more >>

Comments: not a prob........just getting back in to climbing again after a long hiatus......id like to get back on it again sometime.....when im back to pulling hard again, right now im a whimp......i snagged a ride on neanderthal about 5 years ago and flew up it........did it last week and i got spit out....after doing the climb about 50 times over the past 20 years, mostly on lead......i need some practice!!!

if you hit no problem, dont forget to get the second bolt clipped, then back down to the no h... more >>

Comments: awesome arete.....saw this one and had to do it. great climb.......classic. did a nice 11 something or other just to the right of it also that i remember being mixed pro (or i was just being a wuss). and as the front page for the gorge says here......watch those nettles. i never wear shorts and i found out what they were first time i decided to.....damn calves stinging for hours.

Comments: i was just browsing places ive climbed. i remember doing the traverse and john bachars ex gf was there climbing with some dude videoing her for a project. she told me about the fly and i tried it, missed the first time, and then stuck it......i did it repeatedly, and i was barely a 12 climber then. it seemed very easy. i dynoed it like the guy in the vid. i cant believe its rated a v7, or especially a v9. theres no way id have been able to do it, let alone about 7 or 8 times......anyhow, ill tak... more >>

Comments: saw this climb with bobby bensman doing it in an old climbing video. when i got to lemmon, i knew i had to hit it.....well worth it, and great photo op just up from the side of it so you can get the valley in the background......excellent holds, keep moving its pumpy..... --- Invalid image id: 107720819 ---

Comments: have this marked off in my guide book, i think it was a runout slab? i think it was the only route i did in this area and remember it being not far from the parking area down a sandy gulley to a split in the trail. bolts and some trad gear.

Comments: my first 12, and onsight. i think i dyno'd the first move to a sloper on a small ledge??? (this is back in 1994) i was having a great day after almost a week of an ingrown toenail giving me grief that killed any climbing i had to do small footwork on. the hotsprings near bishop fixed that....... everything felt easy and i had no clue i was on the right route because the first moves felt simple and the rest of the climb easy and uneventful.......

Comments: definitely remember this one, and it being run out. i was figuring, ok, 5.8 or 5.10 slab, cant be that bad, and it wasnt, except for the pucker factor towards the top with no pro. i think i traversed left a bit and got something small in a crack with a long runner to make myself feel better.......

nice climb, i couldnt find it in swains red rocks select guide book when i was there almost 20 years ago, but it looked cool and very doable so i went for it. pro was good but a bit of fidgeting to get decent placements, and sewed it up pretty good because i was pretty sure i wouldnt want to have tested any single piece by itself......

i took a year and a half of occasional attempts on weekends to finally get this climb back in like 94. i was just breaking into 12s, and ended up with 6 months off from one of the crimpy side pulls on that razor sharp crap that sliced a few deep lines in my finger pads when i peeled off just above the third bolt.....btw, im not sure f there are new bolts but there were only 4 when i did it, and i replaced the bolt and hanger on the second one back then too. d... more >>